AP 05/20 1050 Richard Butler By KAREN McGRATH Associated Press Writer COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho

AP 05/20 1050 Richard Butler

   By KAREN McGRATH Associated Press Writer

   COEUR  D'ALENE,  Idaho  (AP)  --  A  white  supremacist leader
charged with plotting to overthrow the U.S. government  has  been
freed  on  $100,000  property  bond  and allowed to return to his
military-style compound home.

   The Rev.  Richard Butler must appear for arraignment July 6 in
Fort Smith, Ark., U.S. Magistrate Stephen Ayers said Tuesday.

   Property owned by  Butler  and  his  Church  of  Jesus  Christ
Christian (Aryan Nations) near Hayden Lake north of Coeur d'Alene
will be forfeited if he fails to appear, Ayers said.

   Assistant  U.S.  Attorney  Ron  Howen  of Boise told Ayers the
government withdrew its motion to continue holding Butler because
of his recent heart bypass surgery  and  because  a  codefendant,
Robert   Miles   of  Cohoctah,  Mich.,  had  been  freed  pending
arraignment.

   Butler and Miles had "the same degree  of  responsibility  and
culpability" in the alleged scheme, Howen said.

   An  indictment  alleged  that  the groundwork for the plan was
laid at Butler's Hayden Lake compound in July 1983 and  that  his
role continued through March 1985.

   Prosecutors  allege  the plot was to include assassinations of
federal officials, politicians and Jews; bombings;  pollution  of
municipal  water  supplies;  and training for urban and guerrilla
warfare.  Robberies and counterfeitings allegedly were planned to
pay for the operation.

   Butler's attorney, Everett Hofmeister of Coeur  d'Alene,  said
his  client  plans  to  plead innocent to charges of sedition, or
attempting to overthrow the federal government.

   Butler, 69, surrendered April 24 after being indicted with  14
other white supremacists in Fort Smith and Denver.

   On  April  28,  he suffered chest pains in the Kootenai County
Jail and was taken to Sacred Heart Medical Center.  He  underwent
quadruple  heart  bypass  surgery  May  1  and  a  few days later
underwent surgery for a blockage in one of the  carotid  arteries
in his neck.

   He was released from the hospital Monday.

   Hofmeister said Butler continued to feel dizzy and is weak but
should be completely healthy by his arraignment date.

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